War and media : the emergence of diffused war /

The trinity of government, military and publics has been drawn together into immediate and unpredictable relationships in a "new media ecology" that has ushered in new asymmetries in the waging of war and terror. To help us understand these new relationships, Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hoskins, Andrew, 1967- (Author), O'Loughlin, Ben, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Diffused war ; The two phases of mediatization ; Conclusion
  • Images: Introduction : do images of war show or hide? ; Photograph and flux ; mediality ; Emergence ; Saddam Hussein's execution ; Conclusion
  • Compassion: Introduction : what is compassion fatigue? ; Why news values keep some stories off the radar ; Exploring spectator-sufferer relations ; How do media enable or restrict compassion? ; Conclusion
  • Witness: Introduction ; Representation and the truth of war ; Witnessing ; Conclusion
  • Genocide: Introduction ; Premediation and the Holocaust ; Media templates ; The Trnopolje Camp images ; Towards an ethics of images ; Emergence
  • Memory: The diffusion of media and memory ; The second memory boom ; Media and Holocaust memory ; From witness to embodied memories ; The third memory boom
  • Vectors: Vectors and globalization ; Controlling vectors ; Emergent vectors ; Conclusion
  • Radicalization: The mediatization of radicalization ; Diffuse relations between cause and effect ; Uncertainty for policymakers and journalists enables "hypersecurity" to emerge ; Conclusion
  • Legitimacy: Introduction : legitimacy, representation, discourse ; The power of representations ; Diffuse war axes of representation ; Translation and legitimacy ; Conclusion
  • Methods: Identifying effects amid ubiquitous media ; How do we analyse media practices? ; How do we analyse discursive linking : nexus analysis ; Conclusion.